Piracy: And Why It’s Destroying This Industry

So I wrote this post about two years ago, but since I couldn‘t import my old database, I’m just going to copy and paste it here.  Since this was written two years ago, plenty of things have changed.  I still feel strongly against piracy, but I’ve also edited out quite a bit of swearing I had in my old post.  Please note that there might be a good amount of negativity, but I tried to tone it down a bit, so I do apologize for that.  A lot of this post still matters, so I’m going to paste it below: